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What's the best green stuff to colour and (more importantly) preserve
a wooden fence?

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Snot.
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Snot.


Not swarfega?


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Snot.


Not swarfega?


asparagus pee.


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OK, OK! Swarfega-coloured paint? :-)
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Ronseal?

Also, best regardless of price (e.g. Sadolin) or best value for money?

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The stuff they use on green coloured pressure treated timber.

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Cuprinol 4* if you can still get it. Expensive and deadly.
Comes in Clear, Brown and Green.
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What's the best green stuff to colour and (more importantly) preserve
a wooden fence?



Ronseal?

Also, best regardless of price (e.g. Sadolin) or best value for money?


I found Sadolin to be useless in Italy, the sun causes it to flake off in
large sheets. Its accelerated ageing compared to the UK but indicates what
will happen over time.

I would use Johnstones Shed and Fence paint, it has stood up well in the UK
and in Italy.


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Cuprinol 4* if you can still get it. Expensive and deadly.
Comes in Clear, Brown and Green.


So the green one then:-)?

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What's the best green stuff to colour and (more importantly) preserve
a wooden fence?



Ronseal?

Also, best regardless of price (e.g. Sadolin) or best value for money?


I found Sadolin to be useless in Italy, the sun causes it to flake off in
large sheets. Its accelerated ageing compared to the UK but indicates
what
will happen over time.

I would use Johnstones Shed and Fence paint, it has stood up well in the
UK
and in Italy.


Just been using some of that myself - very pleasant to use.

Also, for the more 'architectural' woodwork, their Quick Dry Opaque Wood
Finish. Unlike several other brands, it can be tinted to requirement and
covers quite well.

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What's the best green stuff to colour and (more importantly)

preserve
a wooden fence?


The stuff they use on green coloured pressure treated timber.


Chromated copper arsenate, it works, its probably been banned.

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On Jun 15, 10:25 pm, geraldthehamster wrote:
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My cheapskate neighbour uses a mixture of dieseline and old sump oil,
with some green oil-based paint and some Metalex timber preservative
(full of nasty stuff probably banned in the UK)
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In our old house I used Cuprinol Garden Wood Preserver (or possibly the
equivalent about 8-9 years ago)

http://www.cuprinol.co.uk/products/garden_wood_preserver_usage.jsp

It's a spirit based one, rather than water based one which seems more
about colouring something, than preserving.

In terms of colour it lasted pretty well IIRC. Preservative - TBH,
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:43:45 -0700 (PDT), Man at B&Q wrote:

What's the best green stuff to colour and (more importantly)

preserve
a wooden fence?


The stuff they use on green coloured pressure treated timber.


Chromated copper arsenate, it works,


Not for timber buried is soil or subject to damp over extended periods.

its probably been banned.


Everything useful is banned. I can't find fly spray that works any more. I
think current varieties are supposed to scare flies to death by making a
hissing noise.
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"Dave Liquorice" wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:43:45 -0700 (PDT), Man at B&Q wrote:

What's the best green stuff to colour and (more importantly)

preserve
a wooden fence?

The stuff they use on green coloured pressure treated timber.


Chromated copper arsenate, it works,


Not for timber buried is soil or subject to damp over extended periods.

its probably been banned.


Everything useful is banned. I can't find fly spray that works any more. I
think current varieties are supposed to scare flies to death by making a
hissing noise.


I have been disposing of Wasps nests with some old (15 years) cat flea
spray:-) Nuvan Top? Excellent results.

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Chromated copper arsenate, it works,


Not for timber buried is soil or subject to damp over extended periods.


Is that 'cause of the risk of the arsenic leaching out or doesn't it
work in the wet?

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Chromated copper arsenate, it works,

Not for timber buried is soil or subject to damp over extended periods.


Is that 'cause of the risk of the arsenic leaching out or doesn't it
work in the wet?

It does work, but not forever.
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On 16 Jun 2011 08:28:50 GMT, Steve Firth wrote:

Chromated copper arsenate, it works,


Not for timber buried is soil or subject to damp over extended periods.


Is that 'cause of the risk of the arsenic leaching out or doesn't it
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It works good. Posts outlive the wire mesh.

It's really nasty stuff, now banned. It is waterbased and is applied
with an autoclave. (Suck the air out, spray & let the air back in.)
It gets into the soil when someone burns the old posts/fencing.
The effect is very long lasting, crops can take it up too


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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Liquorice"
saying something like:

The stuff they use on green coloured pressure treated timber.


Chromated copper arsenate, it works, its probably been banned.


I came across this...
url:http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/research/un...nit_id=RWU4723

Which led to this...
url:http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf1998/perma98a.pdf

Hmm... plain Copper Oxide is surprisingly effective.
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